Close to midnight on the 16th November 1920, on Killaloe Bridge, British Forces shot dead four young men. The 'Scariff Martyrs' have been remembered for over a century. Here their story is finally told. Young rebels committed to a cause, their betrayal by a spy, their brutal treatment and refusal to give up their comrades, when combined, bequeaths a memory that has reverberated across generations. Assembling all available evidence for the first time, with previously unused material and over 150 interviews, Mac Conmara brings seventeen years of research to completion. With his unique skill as a navigator of memory, he addresses what happened that night on a darkened bridge and finally explains how four men were drawn together to form one of the most enduring stories in Clare's War of Independence.